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The Global Champions Tour (GCT) is an annual show jumping series that comprises 14 rounds of competition hosted by unique, exclusive venues and capital cities around the world. The Title Sponsor and Official Timekeeper is Longines and other associated sponsors include Qatar, Massimo Dutti, FedEx, Gucci, BMW, Glock, HSBC, Merit Capital, Taittinger, Audi, Volkswagen, VDL Groep, Airbus Group, Maybourne Hotel Group, Sapinda, ICURAS, LGT and Eurosport. Member of the Monaco royal family Charlotte Casiraghi is Honorary President of the Jumping International de Monte-Carlo leg of the tour and regular high-profile competitors include Athina Onassis, Georgina Bloomberg, Jessica Springsteen, Sofia Abramovich, Guillaume Canet and Jennifer Gates. Founded in 2006 by the Olympic gold medalist Jan Tops, the Longines Global Champions Tour brings together the top 30 riders in the FEI Longines World Rankings, who compete in a series of shows that aim to provide 'the best in showjumping'. In 2014, overall LGCT Championship winner Scott Brash (see Rules below) received just under €300,000, making it the biggest single prize in any of the three Olympic equestrian disciplines (dressage, eventing and showjumping). During this season, Brash won over €852,000 in total prize money 〔http://www.globalchampionstour.com〕 making the Longines Global Champions Tour one of, if not the, richest equestrian sporting series in the world. Since 2007, all LGCT events have been held as CSI 5 *, which means that under FEI rules they are championship-level events. The LGCT classes are run under FEI rules but the governing body has no part in the organisation of the series, aside from ratifying the schedule. The LGCT is not an FEI series like the World Cup or the Nations Cup competitions. ==Rules== The overall standings are determined by the placement of the rider in the Grand Prix competitions of the Longines Global Champions Tour. The scoring is carried out as follows: Points won by competitors who are tied are added together and then divided equally. Fifty percent of the rider's best results count towards their overall LGCT ranking classification, thus with 14 events in 2014, seven of the riders best results count towards their overall ranking and any additional weakest scores are dropped. In 2008 and 2009, the winner was determined in a separate final. The top 25 riders of this season overall standings were allowed to participate in the final. In 2006 and 2007, and again from 2010, the winner was determined by the overall standings of the season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Champions Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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